Model-turned-actor Jamie Dornan has said that while he has a lot of respect for the fashion industry, he finds it "all a bit silly".
Bang Showbiz quote the Irish actor as saying: "I have a lot of respect for the fashion industry, but when you break it down, it's all a bit silly."
Speaking about making the move from a Calvin Klein model to actor Dornan said: "There's a certain stigma attached to the whole thing of model-turned-actor. But I was always quite a reluctant model, to my agent's annoyance. I was never hugely keen on it or doing it, and in a weird way I didn't do a great deal of it. They happened to be jobs that ended up on the sides of buses, but it wasn't this all-consuming thing. I've never done a catwalk show in my life."
The 32-year-old The Fall star concluded: "For the last 10 years of my life I've been a model. I will always think of myself during that time less as being a relatively successful model, more of a failed actor. Because I was failing every week.''
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